Warday, a book I enjoyed twenty years or more ago, was among those books I pulled from the shelf at the old soldiers' home (few readers) earlier this week after having had no takers for eight weeks so as to make room for another dozen books. I began to reread the section where they visited California and found that the book stands up well thirty years after publication.
Mr. Strieber artfully mixes description with 'interviews' of both officials and ordinary people as they travel across the US a very few years after an unplanned exchange of nuclear missiles with the USSR. In the end we are urged to take measures to ensure nuclear war does not occur. It is regrettable that the 'clock' remains a few minutes before midnight thirty years after this book was published--the message has not been taken to heart. This book is a 'fast read' so one with some interest in a future USA [partially devastated by nuclear bombs (the EMP bombs were more problematic in many ways) and other nations taking trade advantage of America while offering some aid] need not be intimidated by the thickness of the volume.
Since I already took the ten or so books I pulled to the VA at Sawtelle, I will put Warday on top of the pay telephone on a corner where many down on their luck people pass by. Hopefully, someone will enjoy it while they wait in line for a job, shower, or whatever.
Mr. Strieber artfully mixes description with 'interviews' of both officials and ordinary people as they travel across the US a very few years after an unplanned exchange of nuclear missiles with the USSR. In the end we are urged to take measures to ensure nuclear war does not occur. It is regrettable that the 'clock' remains a few minutes before midnight thirty years after this book was published--the message has not been taken to heart. This book is a 'fast read' so one with some interest in a future USA [partially devastated by nuclear bombs (the EMP bombs were more problematic in many ways) and other nations taking trade advantage of America while offering some aid] need not be intimidated by the thickness of the volume.
Since I already took the ten or so books I pulled to the VA at Sawtelle, I will put Warday on top of the pay telephone on a corner where many down on their luck people pass by. Hopefully, someone will enjoy it while they wait in line for a job, shower, or whatever.
